John Marsden Short Quotes

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We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.

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The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.

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Nothing reaches inside you and grabs you by the guts the way fear does.

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The world was quickly forgetting us. And there was little news to report.

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Live as though you'll die tomorrow, but farm as though you'll live forever.

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Let no stranger intrude here, no invader trespass. This was ours, and this we would defend.

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Don't treat people as you think they are, treat them as you think they are capable of becoming.

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Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.

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I didn't confess how wrecked I was. Let them keep thinking I was Superwoman if they wanted. I knew the truth.

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All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

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If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they'd probably come to less than sixty minutes.

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At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up.

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There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.

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It's good to keep changing your mind. It shows you're thinking. I'll only stop changing my mind when I'm dead. And maybe not even then.

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When you're scared you can either give in to the panic and let your mind fall apart, or you can take charge of your mind and think brave.

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The Bible just said 'Thou shalt not kill', then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.

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What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.

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Name three types of olives." "Olives! I wouldn't know one type!" "Well, there are three. You can get green ones, you can get black ones, or you can get stuffed.

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We'd thought that we were among the first humans to invade this basin, but humans had invaded everything, everywhere. They didn't have to walk into a place to invade it.

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I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die.

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